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How and Why to Create a Progressive Web App

It’s no secret that the future of the web is mobile. As such, delivering a seamless user experience for mobile users has become a necessity for almost every software endeavor. That being said, creating and maintaining separate mobile applications is not a feasible solution for every dev team. Progressive

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Start Unit Testing Your Javascript with Jest

Most JavaScript developers either ignore or pay the least amount of attention to unit testing. Nevertheless, unit testing is crucial in weeding out issues before they drive away users. While we can always do manual testing, it is massively more efficient to perform testing by using testing frameworks. In today’

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Building Native Desktop Apps with Electron.JS

Gone are the days where Javascript is locked behind the shackles of a browser. Electron, or Electron.js, is a framework maintained by the OpenJS foundation to build native desktop applications using web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. More and more native applications, like Spotify, VSCode, and Slack, are

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Create Your Own Ethereum Token in Minutes

As more and more dollars are poured into blockchain companies, blockchain development has become an increasingly lucrative skill. In this tutorial, we’re going to be using Solidity, an Object-Oriented programming language for building smart contracts. How Creating a Token Works We are going to be making what’s known

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Sending Text Messages with Javascript and Twilio

Twilio has become a favorite among devs looking to integrate messaging, calls, and streaming into their web and mobile apps. Their APIs are some of the most comprehensive and simple on the market, making it great for bootstrapping projects. In today’s tutorial, we’re going to be using Twilio’

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How to Start Using Typescript

One of the most significant innovations in web development in the past decade has been the shift towards Typescript. As more and more employers are looking to limit tech debt, learning Typescript is becoming essential to landing a job as a web developer. While dynamically-typed languages make life easier for

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Quantum Computing with Javascript using Q.js

While Quantum Computing may feel like a new buzzword, it’s been around for quite a long time. What started as a theoretical idea in the 1980s is slowly becoming a reality. In this tutorial, we’ll be talking about how Quantum computing works and how you can use Javascript

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Can we make Pong in less than a 100 lines of Javascript?

The original Pong took Atari over 3 months to complete back in 1972. The classic arcade game was one of the first commercially successful games that paved the way for the game development industry. Additionally, it’s simplicity makes it one of the first projects that any programmer takes on.

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Scrape Your First Website in Minutes with Python

Ever felt the need to pull out data from a website? What would you do? Visit the sites one after the other and gather information? Well that would work if you have a page or two. However, if you have lots of them, manual extraction will become too difficult a

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10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Javascript

This Thanksgiving season, I’m especially grateful for Javascript. Since its announcement in December 1995(Javascript’s birthday is actually this week! [https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html] ), it has brought life to the web. Long gone, however, are the days where

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Getting started with Web Sockets in NodeJS

Websockets don’t require a client request to fetch data from the server every time, fulfilling the need for real-time updates.

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Help build the Metaverse by Developing VR Websites

In this tutorial, we’re going to be building a VR website in minutes (you don’t even need a VR device to test it with)!

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Create a Discord Bot with Python in Minutes

Let us walk you through the step-by-step process of creating a Discord both with Python and deploying it in minutes.

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Using the Twitter API with NodeJS

Today I’m going to show you just how easy it is to use the Twitter API with NodeJS to read, search, and post tweets.

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Build Universal Web Components with LitElement

In this tutorial, I’ll be showing you how to create your first LitElement component and render it in a vanilla HTML file.

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Create a Slack Bot with NodeJS

In this tutorial, we’re going to be using NodeJS to create a Slack Bot which you can customize to handle HR operations, pull data, or just…

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Set Up a Decentralized Database with React and GunDB

In this tutorial, we’re going to build a decentralized Google Docs clone with React and GunDB.

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Building a Chrome Extension in Minutes

Ever wondered how you can build your own Chrome Extension? It’s not as hard as you might think!

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Making SQLite Easy with Codesphere!

Working with SQLite just got a whole lot easier! Codesphere is happy to announce a new UI for creating and managing your SQLite databases!

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Voice Automating Spotify w/ React and Codesphere

If you’re a developer, you know how many different tabs and applications you might have open at once. That’s why today we’re going to…

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Building Conway’s Game of Life in Javascript

Conway’s Game of Life has amazed Computer Scientists and Mathematicians for over half a century now. For those who don’t know, the Game of…

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Getting Started with CSS Animations

Earlier this week we spoke about some helpful UX tips to keep in mind when you are creating animations for your website.

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Creating Your First Neural Network in Python w/ Tensorflow

If you’ve looked into Machine Learning even a little bit, you’ve heard of Tensorflow, one of the most popular tools for designing…

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How to Use Environment Variables in Codesphere

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how you can set up environment variables in your Codesphere app in just a couple of minutes.

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What are Callbacks in JavaScript?

Anyone familiar with programming, already knows what functions do and how to use them.